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| Criterion |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Agile Bucket System |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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